resident evil...

actually it's the mafia of doh
and it's happening also in education
or decs"moderate greed"?

ask their former leaders :(
and you'll know whatis poverty

....

all the treasures of palawan had been moderated by greeds since the
election of aroyo... we will just beg for the scraps of them all. then
we can define again poverties


what we will do
let's just be a lamb
silent to the end


....


resident evil



i was talking about the DOH mafias of manila not culion (.)
imbestigador is done by the resident evil of culion of no other than
the major like glorfia. it's a shame he can reveal the evils of his
own feathers and trying to decieve our peoples again... this is
enough we're being perverted again and again... what did he do to
culion? corrupting the livelihood of the people for his own power
and position so he can control the stupidity of his crony in just
one year. our doctors had offer their entire life serving our
peoples even in their limitations and mistakes or also stupidity but
they never control and corrupted or deceived the lives of our own
with their own stupidities. this is the irrational of immoderate
greeds who cannot control their deadliest sins within, that's why
being caught by the resident evils' molicules of this world...


anyway we'll just choose
silence of the lamb



and we'll reflect this lenten season
meditate barabas or pilate and even the peoples or Jesus
it's our choice


judgement day will come too
it is in our DNA


but please let's reflect more on life and truth



so what is truth?






...simply THE LAMB





prayers THIS SEASON


and conversion




this we beg...............

We're authentic now… cog

We're authentic now…
and sustaining, ....

Because we already built a "conscious community" a shared story, and consensual decision making, built upon respect for all individuals and inclusivity of difference.

We went in process of authenticity already:

We passed a Pseudo-community: Where members are chatting "nice with each other", playing-safe, and presenting what they feel is the most favourable sides of their personalities.

Then there was total Chaos: talking chatting beyond the inauthenticity of pseudo-community and feel safe enough to present our "shadow" selves. A great demand upon the facilitator for greater leadership and organization was met those stormy times, but we're not "organizations" anymore we are a community.

By that time we Empty ourselves This stage moves beyond the attempts to fix, heal and convert of the chaos stage, when all people become capable of acknowledging their own woundedness and brokenness, common to us all as human beings.

And out of this emptying comes …

Authentic community: the process of deep respect and true listening for the needs of the others. We can only described it as "success" and reflects a deep yearning in every human soul for compassionate understanding from one's fellows. "a unity of will." Which showed in our past activities and accomplishments

And we're not stagnant. We're just taking the right time to continue our small ways of helping the communities of culion.

So our aim is in our hands now an authentic and true community

Our primary focus now is the development of our members towards leadership and aim beyond doubts the - needs, strengths, goals, visions etc. for the communities amidst the complexities of our situations and life in general.


My point is we're not that stagnant.
No big deal if nobody is posting anymore
they're just busy thinking their way of life's sharings :)
We already committed ourselves and we will continue even when we feel idle.
We're just taking time. No worries .. we are sustaining…
Health awareness was an accomplishment and it'll remain in their hearts
The papers and pens and foods had long time effect in the lives of those students as long as they live. Tangay is our forefathers and we just do them some respect and homage by the bancas and funds or even educations even `binabarat sila' in our small 5th grade town way of living. so in the end it's not a waste of time. It will remain forever.. walang nagmamayabang dito just depending our own consistency.
And the beauty of it is nobody is forcing anybody here. We have our own responsible freedoms and true rational as member respecting each and everyone even at times we clash our opinions and ideas. We can't block the flows of interactive all have their fair shares. No one dictates it's just paradox of life and meets our own crossroads in a way balancing our senses and reach out for truth and goodness of all.


Time for organizing. (again)

Let's begin a serious discussion about how organizing can be integrated into…
add more strategies

- planning
- increase group sufficiency
- recruiting leaders
- connect more committed members across networks
- fusing of discipline.
- broadening time horizon. patience
- continued experiment with and evaluate effectiveness
- listen more actively in determining our true goals, objectives and investments.
- funds - strengthening funding infrastructure.
- visioning and agenda setting (we have lots of them I think)


Example is the library
What is the relevant?
How to find the funds for the shelves?
But first we need to motivate people there… why will they need a library… who will handle it? Personally for me I really want more on internet library as what the news shared by sr. josie. but we really need the local leaders on it… so what to do? :)
Maybe we'll analyze now. I heard smart has offer internet there now. so Library and e-net. But funds. We need more fund raisings . What about local gov't . maybe they can share some of their `moderate greed'… by waking them up or begging. Oopps


Grassroots...

The power of example... doing our own small special ways.

Let's trace the dynamic relationship between participation and leadership of our past activities.





So as an authentic cog maybe we really need group leaders to distribute the tasks and work it out in our own small special ways…

Main concern now……….
FINDING OUR LEADER/S (in culion)
and
FUNDS
:)

bigger than life itself...

bigger than life itself...

Our paradoxical attitude gives rise to a deeper question:

what in fact is "life"?

And what does "eternity" really mean?
There are moments when it suddenly seems clear to us:
yes, this is what true "life" is this is what it should be like.
Besides, what we call "life" in our everyday language is not
real "life" at all. Saint Augustine, in the extended letter on
prayer which he addressed to a wealthy Roman, once wrote this:
ultimately we want only one thing "the blessed life",
the life which is simply life,
simply "happiness". In the final analysis, there is nothing else
that we ask for in prayer.
Our journey has no other goal it is about this alone.

But then Augustine also says: looking more closely,
we have no idea what we ultimately desire, what we would really
like. We do not know this reality at all; even in those moments when
we think we can reach out and touch it, it eludes us.
"We do not know what we should pray for as we ought," he says,
quoting Saint Paul (Rom 8:26). All we know is that it is not this.
Yet in not knowing, we know that this reality must exist.
"There is therefore in us a certain LEARNED IGNORANCE (docta
ignorantia), so to speak", he writes. We do not know what we would
really like; we do not know this "true life"; and yet we know that
there must be something we do not know towards which we feel driven.

I think that in this very precise and permanently valid way,
Augustine is describing man's essential situation, the situation
that gives rise to all his contradictions and hopes. In some way we
want life itself, true life, untouched even by death; yet at the
same time we do not know the thing towards which we feel driven. We
cannot stop reaching out for it, and yet we know that all we can
experience or accomplish is not what we yearn for. This
unknown "thing" is the true "hope" which drives us, and at the same
time the fact that it is unknown is the cause of all forms of
despair and also of all efforts, whether positive or destructive,
directed towards worldly authenticity and human authenticity. The
term "eternal life" is intended to give a name to this
known "unknown". Inevitably it is an inadequate term that creates
confusion. "Eternal", in fact, suggests to us the idea of something
interminable, and this frightens us; "life" makes us think of the
life that we know and love and do not want to lose,
even though very often it brings more toil than satisfaction, so
that while on the one hand we desire it, on the other hand we do not
want it. To imagine ourselves outside the temporality that imprisons
us and in some way to sense that eternity is not an unending
succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the
supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we
embrace totality this we can only attempt.

It would be like plunging into the ocean of INFINITE LOVE, a moment
in which time the before and after to longer exists. We can only
attempt to grasp the idea that such a moment is life in the full
sense, a plunging ever anew into the vastness of being, in which we
are simply overwhelmed with joy. This is how Jesus expresses it in
Saint John's Gospel: "I will see you again and your hearts will
rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you" (16:22). We must
think along these lines if we want to understand the object of
Christian hope, to understand what it is that our faith, our being
with Christ, leads us to expect.

For St. Augustine this meant a totally new life. He once described
his daily life in the following terms:
"The turbulent have to be corrected, the faint-hearted cheered up,
the weak supported; the Gospel's opponents need to be refuted, its
insidious enemies guarded against; the unlearned need to be taught,
the indolent stirred up, the argumentative checked; the proud must
be put in their place, the desperate set on their feet, those
engaged in quarrels reconciled; the needy have to be helped, the
oppressed to be liberated, the good to be encouraged, the bad to be
tolerated; all must be loved"[22].
"The Gospel terrifies me"[23] introducing that healthy fear which
prevents us from living for ourselves alone and compels us to pass
on the hope we hold in common.

So now we can say: Christianity was not only "good news" the
communication of a hitherto unknown content. In our language we
would say:
the Christian message was not only "informative" but
"PERFORMATIVE".
That means: the Gospel is not merely a communication of things that
can be known it is one that makes things happen and is life-
changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown
open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has
been granted the gift of a NEW life.


(spe salvi)


HaPPy NeW LiFe!!

happy...

(What is)
Happiness

...Inq7...

Happiness, says the Greek philosopher Aristotle,
occurs when our human capacities function well. For him, the most
distinctive of these capacities is reason,
and so happiness must be the contemplation of the results of reason.
But he wavered between equating happiness with contemplation and
seeing it as the outcome of other human functions.

The eminent American guru of Positive Psychology,
Dr. Martin E. Seligman, was the guest of Stephen Sackur on BBC's
"Hardtalk" this week,
He talked of three forms of happiness:
-Positive Emotions,
-Total Engagement, and
-Meaning and Purpose.
They are interrelated, he says, and indeed he talks of them as if they
were stages. Of these,
the easiest to achieve is the first -- cheerfulness and laughter.
The most difficult is anchoring life's meaning to a purpose that you
believe to be larger than you.
This concept of happiness is fascinating, but I think it is
culture-bound. It is still resonant of the Western accent on the
primacy of reason and the intellect.

Survey after survey has shown that Filipinos rank very high in the
happiness index. But we are not really sure what happiness consists of
for the average Filipino. I am certain that the Filipino's capacity
for happiness even in the most adverse circumstances would still be
significantly higher than the scores for the bastions of Aristotelian
contemplation, like Britain, France, or Germany.

What might this suggest about the Filipino's notion of the good life?
To me, it indicates a preference for sheer sociability -- being with
others for its own sake -- over any form of intellectual or cognitive
achievement. We often say that our notion of happiness is shallow
("mababaw ang kaligayahan natin"). So be it. I think theorists like
Seligman or self-help gurus like Rick Warren will have to show how
having a "higher" purpose in life deepens one's happiness, or why this
should be the norm for everyone.

When the Filipino says he feels happiest when he is at home with
family and friends, I think he is expressing a wisdom our ancestors
have always known. We are indeed a culture of conviviality. All our
basic values confirm this: "pakikisama," "hiya," "utang na loob," etc.
They all refer to standards prescribing smooth relations with others.
They stand in contrast to Western values like virtue, wisdom, personal
authenticity, freedom, etc.

Sociologists might explain this difference as an aspect of the
contrast between pre-modernity and modernity. They would suggest that
the direction of all societal evolution is toward the emergence of the
individual from the control of his family, clan, community or nation.
To a certain extent this is probably true. But how do we explain the
fact that many overseas Filipino workers and immigrants who have
managed to wrench themselves away from the womb of their society
nevertheless continue to be emotionally engaged in the affairs of
their primordial communities. Like turtles, they seem to have brought
their homes on their backs.

The answer, perhaps, lies in the courage, faith, assurance and, yes,
cheerfulness, that we Filipinos effortlessly draw from being in the
company of other people we know. I am sure we will find this as well
in other cultures in varying degrees, but not in the exceptional way
in which Filipinos seek out each other's company.

In the 1960s, motivational psychologists like David McClelland were
preaching the gospel of the N-Ach (need for achievement). They
measured cultures like ours and pronounced them short in N-Ach. Today,
mercifully, they have focused their attention on the
economically-advanced societies, measuring them on the happiness
index, and pronouncing them severely lacking in happiness.

The modern preoccupation with happiness is amazing. It has spawned a
whole industry in those countries that have solved the basic problems of

mass poverty
but now must contend with what Seligman calls the

"epidemic of depression."

Clearly, there is no direct relationship between wealth and happiness.
Beyond a certain level of wealth, Seligman says, more money buys less
happiness.
Happiness, just like economic growth, is a worthy goal of the state,
Seligman declares. And many governments are listening.

We Filipinos are still a long way from vanquishing the scourge of

mass poverty.

But this seems a lot easier today

than the conquest of misery itself.

We may be a failure at governance for now,
but it is a great gift that we know how to be happy.


(By Randy David)


Happy Christmas!

on death...

Death of Fr. Chambers



Faith is the substance of hope.
But then the question arises:
do we really want to live eternally?

Death, admittedly, one would wish to postpone for as long as
possible. But to live always, without end뾲his, all things
considered, can only be monotonous and ultimately unbearable.
This is precisely the point made, for example, by Saint Ambrose,
one of the Church Fathers, in the funeral discourse for his deceased
brother Satyrus:

"Death was not part of nature;
it became part of nature.
God did not decree death from the beginning;
he prescribed it as a remedy.
Human life,
because of sin ... began to experience the burden of wretchedness in
unremitting labour and unbearable sorrow.
There had to be a LIMIT to its evils;
death had to restore what life had forfeited.
Without the assistance of GRACE, immortality is more of a burden
than a blessing"[6].
A little earlier, Ambrose had said:
"Death is, then, no cause for mourning,
for it is the cause of mankind's SALVATION"[7].




(spe salvi)




OUR prayers
and condolence
to Fr. Chambers SJ
one of the priests in culion who changed it...
living the life of JesusChrist